PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


	"Angelica Schuyler Church and Mr. Jefferson" will be the
topic of a talk Sunday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. at the University of
Virginia's Alderman Library.

	Against the backdrop of an exhibit about Church, Joanne
Freeman, a U.Va. Ph.D. candidate in history, will discuss Church's
role as well as that of other women in political families during the
late 18th and early 19th century. The lecture is sponsored by the
U.Va.'s Women Center.

	Church, Alexander Hamilton's sister-in-law, corresponded
with many of the country's most prominent political figures,
including Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, the Marquis de
Lafayette, General Van Renssalaer and Baron von Steuben.  The
exhibit, which offers insight into the public and private lives of
such politically astute men as Jefferson and Hamilton, consists of
77 letters and documents, including 13 letters from Jefferson and 11
from Hamilton.  The documents remained in the possession of Church's
descendants for two centuries prior to their recent purchase by U.Va.

	The exhibit also includes a portrait of Angelica Church by
John Trumbull on loan from a private collection.  Exhibit hours are
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. 

	For more information, call (804) 924-3025.

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November 13, 1996

START DATE:   Immediate
KILL DATE:      Nov. 18, 1996